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"It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn."
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"For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced."

"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."

"With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use."

"I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally."

"Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger."

"For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song."

"It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit."

"Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?"

"Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role."

"The plants which stand next to dwarf trees in importance with the Chinese are certainly chrysanthemums, which they manage extremely well, perhaps better than they do any other plant."
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"We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity."


"As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking."


"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."


"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity."


"The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men."


"The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself."
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